Dong-yi Lin

Contact information

Muinkkaai 42

9000 Ghent (Belgium)

(+32) 09 331 32 76

dongyi.lin(at)ugent.be

 

Research interests

  • Syntax
  • Typology
  • Austronesian languages, esp. Formosan languages
  • wh-questions
  • interrogative verbs
  • adverbial verbs
  • argument-adjunct asymmetry
  • obligatory control

 

Publications

Doctoral Dissertation:

  • 2013. Interrogative constructions in Kavalan and Amis. University of Florida. (advisor: Prof. Eric Potsdam)

MA Thesis:

  • 2006. The language of emotion in Kavalan. National Taiwan University. (advisor: Prof. Shuanfan Huang)

Journal Articles and Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters:

  • Lin, Dong-yi. 2016. Restrictions on wh-in-situ in Kavalan and Amis. Lingua 169.42-69.
  • Chu, Wo-Hsin, Tsung-Ying Chen, & Dong-yi Lin. 2015. The relationship between working memory and Chinese language comprehension skills. Journal of Chinese Language Teaching. 12(3).53-92. (in Chinese)
  • Lin, Dong-yi. 2015. The syntactic derivations of interrogative verbs in Amis and Kavalan. In New advances in Formosan linguistics, eds. by Elizabeth Zeitoun, Stacy F. Teng, and Joy J. Wu, 253-289. Canberra: Asia-Pacific Linguistics.
  • Chu, Wo-Hsin, Dong-yi Lin, Tsung-Ying Chen, Pei-Shu Tsai, & Chao-Hua Wang. 2015. The relationships between ambiguity tolerance, learning strategies, and learning Chinese as a second language. System 49:1-16.
  • Lin, Dong-yi. 2012. Interrogative verbs in Kavalan and Amis. Oceanic Linguistics 51:182-206.

Conference Proceedings:

  • Lin, Dong-yi. 2016. Floating universal quantifier as a base-generated head in the VP periphery. Proceedings of the 22nd Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association, ed. by Henrison Hsieh, p. 65-81. Canberra: Asia-Pacific Linguistics, ANU.
  • Lin, Dong-yi. 2014. Obligatory control and event structure in Kavalan. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, ed. by Stefan Müller, p.280-298. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.
  • Lin, Dong-yi. 2014. Restrictions on wh-in-situ in Kavalan and Amis. Proceedings of the 31st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, ed. by Robert E. Santana-LaBarge, p.305-314. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. www.lingref.com, document #3033.
  • Chu, Wo-Hsin, Dong-yi Lin, & Pei-Shu Tsai. 2013. The relationship between ambiguity tolerance and learning strategies of CSL students. Proceedings of 2013 International Conference of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, ed. by Li-Na Fang, p. 591–610. Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages, Kaohsiung.
  • Lin, Dong-yi. 2013. Interrogative serial verb constructions in Kavalan. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, eds. by Chundra Cathcart, I-Hsuan Chen, Greg Finley, Shinae Kang, Clare S. Sandy, and Elise Stickles, p.217–231. University of California, Berkeley.
  • Lin, Dong-yi. 2011. Interrogative verb sequencing constructions in Amis. Proceedings of the Eighteenth Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association, eds. by Lauren Eby Clemens, Gregory Scontras, and Maria Polinsky, p.110–124. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

Presentations

  • Lin, Dong-yi. 2016. Polarity emphasis in Cebuano and Kavalan. Paper presented at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. University of Naples Federico II, Naples, August 31 – September 3.
  • Lin, Dong-yi. 2016. Denominal location and locatum verbs in Kavalan. Paper presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. University of California, Berkeley. February 5-7.
  • Lin, Dong-yi. 2015. Numerals and quantifiers in Kavalan: Modifiers as Functional Heads. Paper presented at the 11th International Symposium of Cognition, Logic and Communication (Number: Cognitive, Semantic and Crosslinguistic Approaches). University of Latvia, Riga, December 10-11.
  • Lin, Dong-yi. 2015. Floating universal quantifier as a base-generated functional head. Paper presented at the 8th Syntax, Phonology and Language Analysis Conference. University of Ljubljana, September 24-26.
  • Lin, Dong-yi. 2015. Obligatory control as logophoric anchoring in FinP. Paper presented at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. University of Leiden, September 2-5.
  • Lin, Dong-yi. 2015. On the distributions of strong and weak quantifiers: A comparative study of Kavalan and English. Paper presented at the 2nd International Conference on Language and Linguistics. Apo View Hotel, Davao, August 6-7.
  • Lin, Dong-yi. 2015. Polarity emphasis in Kavalan. Paper presented at the 13th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics. Academia Sinica, Taipei, July 18-23.
  • Lin, Dong-yi. 2015. Floating universal quantifier as a base-generated head in the VP periphery. Paper presented at the 22nd Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association. McGill University, Montreal, May 21–24.
  • Lin, Dong-yi. 2014. The cartography of adverbials in Kavalan. Paper presented at Syntax of the World’s Languages. The University of Pavia, September 8-10.
  • Lin, Dong-yi. 2014. A cartographic approach to adverbials in Kavalan: Adverbial verbs and restructuring. Paper presented at 2014 Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain. University of Oxford, September 1-5.
  • Lin, Dong-yi. 2014. Obligatory control and event structure in Kavalan. Paper presented at the Workshop on Understudied Languages and Syntactic Theory. SUNY, Buffalo, August 27.
  • Lin, Dong-yi. 2014. Locative deictics in Kavalan: The role of argument-adjunct distinction. Paper presented at the Workshop on Aspect and Argument Structure of Adverbs and Prepositions (WAASAP 2). University of Tromsø, June 12-13.
  • Lin, Dong-yi. 2014. A cartographic approach to adverbials in Kavalan: Adverbial verbs and restructuring. Paper presented at GIST 7: Cartography and Beyond 2014. Ghent University, June 4-6.
  • Chu, Wo-Hsin, Dong-yi Lin, & Pei-Shu Tsai. 2013. The relationship between ambiguity tolerance and learning strategies of CSL students. Paper presented at 2013 International Conference of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language. Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages, Kaohsiung, December 27­–29.
  • Lin, Dong-yi. 2013. Obligatory control in Kavalan. Paper presented at the 20th Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association. University of Texas, Arlington, May 17–19.
  • Lin, Dong-yi. 2013. Restrictions on wh-in-situ in Kavalan and Amis. Paper presented at West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 31. Arizona State University, Tempe, February 8–10.
  • Lin, Dong-yi. 2013. The control structure of the interrogative verb sequencing construction in Kavalan. Poster presented at the 87th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Boston, MA. January 3­–6.
  • Lin, Dong-yi. 2011. A syntactic account of interrogative verbs in Kavalan. Paper presented at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. University of Chicago, Illinois. April 7–9.
  • Lin, Dong-yi. 2011. The syntactic derivation of interrogative verbs in Amis. Paper presented at the 2nd Annual Tampa Workshop on Syntax, Semantics, and Phonology. University of South Florida, Tampa. March 11–12.
  • Lin, Dong-yi. 2011. Interrogative verb sequencing constructions in Amis. Poster presented at Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association XVIII. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. March 4–6.
  • Lin, Dong-yi. 2011. Interrogative serial verb constructions in Kavalan. Paper presented at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. University of California, Berkeley. February 12–13.
  • Lin, Dong-yi. 2010. Emotion metaphor and syntactic construction in Kavalan. Paper presented at High Desert Linguistics Society 9th Biennial Conference. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. November 4–6.
  • Lin, Dong-yi. 2010. A syntactic account of nominalization in Kavalan. Paper presented at Syntax of the World’s Languages IV. Institut des Sciences de l’Homme, Lyon, France. September 23–26.
  • Lin, Dong-yi. 2010. Interrogative verbs in Kavalan: Implications for syntactic categories. Paper presented at Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association XVII. Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY. May 7–9.
  • Lin, Dong-yi and Tyler McPeek. 2010. The reflection of language ideologies in Taiwan: Mandarin-Taiwanese code-Switching in Chinese translation of Japanese cartoons. Paper presented at Purdue Linguistics Association Symposium 2010. Purdue University, West Lafayette. April 17.
  • Lin, Dong-yi. 2009. Interrogative constructions in Kavalan. Paper presented at Graduate Student Council Interdisciplinary Research Conference. University of Florida, Gainesville. February 12.
  • Lin, Dong-yi and Jing-lan Joy Wu. 2008. Nominalization and complementation in Kavalan and Amis. Paper presented at The Workshop on the Grouping and Dispersal of Austronesian People. Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. January 3.

Teaching

  • 2011 - 2013   Structure of Human Language. University of Florida.

 

Curriculum Vitae

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